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v Patented July 14, 1885 WITNESSES: Jam. 5.

ATTORNEYS,

' U ITED STATES.

DANIEL r. CHAMBERS, or MEGHANICSBURG, onro, ASSIGNOR OFONE-THIRD TO EMBURY r. oL n-K, or HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed April Patent No. 322,158, dated J'uly 14, 1885.

30. 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DANIEL T. CHAMBERS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Mechanicsburg, in the county of Champaign and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Holdbacks for Harness, of

. which the following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of holdbacks which are so connected with the harness as to require no attention when placing the horse to the carriage; and its object is to provide a self attaching and detaching holdback of neat appearance in harmonious keeping with the most approved style of harness-- one that shall avoid rattling and unnecessary wear on conspicuous parts of the gear.

To this end my invention consists in certain attachments to the thills constructed and combined as hereinafter described and claimed, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a horse,'showing my invention applied. 1 Fig.2 is a horizontal section of a portion of a shaft with my holdback attached to it, and Fig. 3' is a transverse vertical section of a shaft just behind my holdback-ferrule.

A represents a carriage-shaft of any usual form. The shaft here represented isshown as covered with leather, B, in a manner common to stylish carriages. Upon and entirely around this leather covering I fix my ferrule C, as follows: Beneath the covering upon the shaft I first tack a ferrule or leather ring, D, and around this ring I secure the covering in any usual manner. I then place the ferrule around the covering on the shaft and crowd it back until it bears against the slight bulge inthe covering formed by the ring D. This prevents the ferrule from ever slipping backward under any amount of strain, even though the common wood-screws E, with which it is fastened to the shaft, were to become loose. The ring underneath the covering resists endwise thrust very much more than the same ring could do if placed outside the cover, because the action of the ferrule is to wedge the cover upon the ring rather than to push the ring endwise, and the cover itself is alsofastened to the shaft.

F represents the shaft-tug which surrounds avoiding wear.

and its covering from the wear inevitable to l i this locality of the harness and gear. The ferrule, being metal, is brightened by wear, and is neither weakened by the amount of wear to which thelife-time of theharness would subject it nor is it rendered unsightly therei by; but, on the contrary, where the tug is carried directly upon the shaft or its covering in front of a ferrule or other stop, the cover will be quickly worn down to the shaft, and the color of the shaft will thereafter show an unsightly blemish. It is common to seeshafts worn at this point So as to be seriously weakened thereby.

I connect with thetug, and not with any loose connection thereofsuch as rattling rings, &c.-as follows: L is a tang of thick leather made into the tug and projecting rearward therefrom beneath the ferrule to take the wear thereof, and perforated to receive the forward end of the holdback-strap. .By this means leather joins with leather, and leather rests on the I only metal of the device-the ferrule G--so that rattling is impossible. The holdback- P strap attaches to the breeching in a vertical plane, and in some styles of holdback attachments the forward end is also vertical, carrying the edge 'upward to be worn and warped in wet weather by the to and fro dragging of the trace upon the said edge; but in my method i of attaching, the holdback-strap is turned to a horizontal position where it enters the tugtang, and the trace slides upon that portion of the holdback near the thill, which is thus The leather tang L may be attached to the tug F in any other way which will serve the purpose set forth.

I am aware that a flanged ring having its flange on the forward end has been secured to 'the holdback-strap K directly a buggy-shaft to stop a holdback placed directly on the shaft, and I do not claim the same.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a carriage-shaft, A, a cover, B, therefor, the ring D, interposed between the shaft and cover, and the flanged ferrule 0, placed upon the shaft around the cover 13, and close in front of the ring D, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of a carriage-shaft, A, a ferrule, O, secured thereon, provided with a flange, J, a shaft-tug, F, attached to a girth and to asaddle-strap of the harness, a tang, L, secured to the tug, and a holdback-strap, K, connecting the tang L with the breeching of the harness, the said flange J being at the rear end of the ferrule, and that portion of the ferrule forward of the flange being as wide as the tug F, which is shaped to fit thereon, substantially as shown and described.

8. The combination of a carriage-shaft, a ferrule secured thereon provided with a flange at its rear end, a tug fitted around and to rest wholly upon that portion of the ferrule forward of the flange, and a tang projecting rearward from the tug and perforated near its rear edge to receive a holdbackstrap, and means for securing the tug to a girth of the harness, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

DANIEL T. CHAMBERS.

Witnesses:

SoLoN G. KEMON, W. X. STEvENs. 

